Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In March this year , Bishop Peter Ball resigned after being cautioned for gross indecency and is now retired on a church pension . |
| 2 | He was released from Guy 's Hospital yesterday afternoon after being treated for severe lacerations to his wrists and arms . |
| 3 | Then , instead of being played for visual comedy , as when the stewardess in 2001 walks through a half circle to exit upside down , still carrying her tray unspilt ( done by imperceptibly turning the camera 180° in the opposite direction as she walks in a treadmill ) , it 's a drama with wry comedy overtones as the nervous Curnow is supported by his braver Soviet oppo , Brailovsky ( Elya Baskin ) — a sequence largely performed by the actors themselves on wires . |
| 4 | To meet this need , high-power video lights have been developed from earlier photographic types which are capable of being run for long periods at full power . |
| 5 | This saving does not have the character of savings ‘ in general ’ , that of being saved for future consumption , but is saved by capitalists . |
| 6 | Ten years ago , they did n't take seriously the risk of being sued for passive smoking . |
| 7 | Despite being scheduled for late September , it 's still delayed as the label rushes to press enough copies to send it soaring up the charts on the heels of MUDHONEY 's pre-posthumous release . |
| 8 | Despite being scheduled for late September , it 's still delayed as the label rushes to press enough copies to send it soaring up the charts on the heels of MUDHONEY 's pre-posthumous release . |
| 9 | It may prevent extraordinary powers , like that of compulsorily acquiring land , from being abused for unauthorized purposes ; it may prevent a corporation , constituted for purposes of public utility , from endangering those purposes by engaging in other activities ; it may protect the creditors of a company from the dissipation of the company 's capital , to which alone , in the case of a limited company , they can look for payment , and the members from seeing their contributions applied to purposes for which they did not bargain . |
| 10 | The Association feared that if floodlighting caught on , clubs would be drawn into spending too much money , and it banned the new lights at Highbury from being used for official matches . |
| 11 | Officers were allowed to take part in board discussions , and they saw one of their main roles as being to help prevent negative decisions from being taken for trivial reasons . |
| 12 | A 1978 law already protected members of the security forces from being investigated for human rights abuses , and the then President , Augusto Pinochet , had stated in late 1989 as regards human rights that " the day one of my men is touched , the state of law is over " . |
| 13 | He stayed for five years — photographing cars and production lines — before being dismissed for habitual lateness ( he had dallied once too often taking pictures on the way to work ) . |
| 14 | Urine was diluted 25 to 100 times with TRIS-EDTA buffer ( 50 mM TRIS HCl , 4 mM EDTA , pH 7.5 ) before being assayed for cyclic nucleotides . |
| 15 | There rich specimen is opened in a nitrogen-filled glove box , photographed again , and the location , weight , and character of each subsample is meticulously documented before being allocated for scientific study . |
| 16 | We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government . |
| 17 | I think there 's a lot to be said for arranged marriages , actually . ’ |
| 18 | Slote concedes that in determining how much of a stock should be retained , separate percentages may have to be fixed for different sections of the stock , such as fiction and non-fiction . |
| 19 | It may therefore provide the incentive for the most thorough pre-purchase behaviour , and marketers hoping to supply such products may have to be prepared for extensive enquiry and investigation before they will manage to sell any of them . |
| 20 | If you 're using the region 's motorways tonight , you 're advised to be prepared for long delays as the Bank holiday traffic builds up . |
| 21 | Determine the grades to be applied for revised posts that would assume responsibility for all financial and cost-control matters , for personnel , and for enhanced administrative support . |
| 22 | On Dec. 19 EC research ministers unanimously agreed on the technical standards to be applied for high definition television ( HDTV ) broadcasting within the EC . |
| 23 | You do n't expect players to be warned for excessive aggression at this level , but they were , and the first to be admonished was an old hand at listening to finger pointing lectures . |
| 24 | Workstation back-ups by portable tape drive will be possible from late 1992 , and this should eliminate the need for large numbers of floppies to be kept for hard-disk back-ups . |
| 25 | Later it transpired that the INAO ( Institut National des Appellations d'Origine des vins et eaux -de-vie ) would accept this 10% as a stock régulateur , a reserve without appellation to be kept for possible classification should any future shortfall require it . |
| 26 | If there is anything in the distinction I believe that the term Cabinet Committee ought to be kept for Ministerial committees and perhaps for committees of officials directly subordinate to a Ministerial committee ; but I am far from certain that the distinction is worth making . |
| 27 | It was put on deposit immediately , to be kept for post-war work on the course . |
| 28 | Applications must be processed Assuming that the company requires a range of different skills , the applications must be divided into groups according to their suitability for the different posts Some applicants may appear in more than one group , in which case some account will need to be taken of their preferences Managers involved in the selection process must choose those to be invited for initial interview . |
| 29 | But he told Mr Brown : ‘ You are saying that in some way income-related benefits have to be adjusted for particular price rises that occur . |
| 30 | Such models not only allow various emission control programmes to be examined for existing pollution sources , but also can assess the likely impact of new pollution sources . |